Quel sprint final de Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) ! Le Danois a remporté ce vendredi la première étape du Tour d'Italie en lançant son sprint à 400m de la ligne, puis en réussissant à résister au retour du Belge Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike) qui a failli le dépasser sur la ligne. Le Vénézuélien Orluis Aular (Movistar Team) termine lui à la 3e place. Mads Pedersen s'empare également du maillot rose pour la première fois de sa carrière, et entre dans la caste des vainqueurs d'étapes dans les trois Grands Tours.
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00:00if out of 21 stages stage one was your favorite what's your answer now definitely this is my
00:10favorite now uh to win the win the stage and and go in the pink jersey it's absolutely amazing
00:16and especially after after teamwork like this it's really incredible that the team works that
00:21hard and i can i can pay back with a win what was the plan exactly like we did you can see it on tv
00:28that was the exact plan to push really hard on the climb and then make it a smaller group and then
00:34a sprint and then how much were you afraid of what in the finale yeah you always have to be afraid
00:40of wow you know he's uh he's a really really good bike rider and yeah it's not given to win when
00:47when he's in the group so you know you have to handle that with respect and and a bit of fear as
00:53well but yeah today i had the legs to finish it all for the team you mentioned the pink jersey
00:59is it one for the history for your history yeah of course you know that's the first the leaders
01:04jersey i have in the grand tour so that's uh that's something nice congratulations thank you
01:10the plan is going to perfection so yeah we had a clear plan today and we wanted to make the race hard
01:17and uh yeah yeah everywhere everything worked out and and yeah after the team is working like this
01:23it's nice to give them the victory next question did you have any fear during the race or maybe
01:30some other some other colleague who you you saw was performing well or you were just sure from from a
01:37to z that you were going to win this stage no i was i was not sure that i was uh that was i was able to win
01:44you know it's never given that you're winning a race there's so many strong riders in this peloton
01:50and everyone is here in a top shape so if you're too confident when the race starts that you're going
01:55to win it maybe backfires so you have to treat it with respect believe in yourself and then believe in
02:02your team and that's what i did today and you know in a sprint like this uh still with with
02:09about in the group you also have to treat that with respect and you know work like he can also
02:17win the race and and he can so it's never given before you're passing the finish line
02:24mass congratulations for the win uh i was wondering on the climb second lap there wasn't many of you
02:33did you expect someone to try to anticipate this is by some attacks from the gc guys were you ever in
02:39doubt that you could not follow and stay with the first bunch thank you
02:50no not really and that's also why i have to say if you want to attack from that it's uh it's really a
02:56chapeau and and also it's you know it's you know the gc guys they don't win the giro today
03:03uh so i would be surprised if they wanted to attack and especially with the g with the temple which he could
03:11did and in an end they didn't because she was riding that fast uh so for us this was the ideal
03:17situation questions from the press room headquarters no questions we carry on from here
03:34no uh go on chris thank you um mads now you've got one win here what do you think you can do in the next
03:43week i mean is it the case now you've got the momentum you'll keep on rolling now
03:51yeah you know when you start with the with the win in on stage one you can't sit back and then just
03:56enjoy the next 20 days so uh we are here to to keep keep trying and winning as much as possible so
04:04we are happy to start like this it's absolutely amazing but we also hungry for more you know we
04:09worked really hard to be in a shape in this race so we're not sitting up now we uh we keep fighting
04:18congrats what does this pink jersey mean to you um do you have any memory in the past of you
04:26as a kid watching giro d'italia on television i was not really a kid who was watching bike races you
04:33know i had too much energy so i was riding my bike or doing something else but you know it's one of the
04:39biggest races in the world and and now i i managed to to have a leaders jersey in a grand tour and and in
04:45in a race like this with such a history it's absolutely amazing so it's a it's a cherry on the cake
04:51from a stage win but it's also absolutely amazing to to be able to say i had the pink jersey
04:56match were you aware that while when i slipped back a little bit on the climb the second time
05:11round and did that change anything on the run into the final uh i i definitely knew uh my ds in the
05:21radio he was uh telling us that wow he started to have a hard time in the end of the climb uh but i
05:28also knew that about is uh he's a super smart rider so he you know he he started in the front of the
05:35of the peloton and then he could move slightly back and still managed to be in the group so
05:40i knew we wouldn't be able to drop him but we could make it hard for him so chico went a bit harder
05:46over the top um but we were fully aware of him going backwards a little bit from here
05:54i ask you just one name if possible who are we going to meet here in 24 hours maybe you again
06:01maybe vacek was pushing really hard and he's a chronoman maybe roglic i don't know if you if
06:06you can just tell me one name in your mind it was going to be leader in 24 hours i hope it's myself
06:12of course you know it's i can do a short tt but i i can't promise anything i will do my absolutely
06:16best to to keep the jersey and honor the jersey but it's still so many guys and you know in the
06:22time of of being able to get the jersey tomorrow and also gc riders who's super good in tts so
06:29me and vacek we will do our absolutely best to to keep the jersey within the team but uh yeah i would
06:35love to give you a good answer but i don't know i hope it's myself you won the third again this year
06:42what kind of happiness is this one sorry you you won the third again battle game what kind of happiness is
06:49this one yeah you can't compare that you know classic is something completely different and and that's
06:58you know the classic is where my heart is by far so this will always be something special for me
07:05but winning in a grand tour is also super special and as i said especially when when you get a jersey
07:10like this on top you know then it makes it even more special so i won't sit here and compare to say
07:16one of the other is better it's two different things and it makes me proud both of them
07:20um about the decision to do the giro this year after classics uh it has been more your decision
07:37team decision or both i think we were pretty clear with this long time ago when the team came out with
07:45the plan that uh i was going here this everyone knew already in january that my plan was to do giro and
07:52welter um so yeah it's nothing new and and we all knew that this was the plan so i prepared for this
07:59the whole window press room mads you won in napoli two years ago it's a slightly different finish in napoli
08:09next week but is that one of the stages you have your eyes on also
08:16uh to be clear i didn't look exactly on that stage yet we took it a bit day by day
08:23if you tell me it suits me then i have my eye on this also
08:28last question ultima domanda if i remember well normally you are not really interesting
08:34about the history of cycling correct so i don't know if in the past you had some images in your
08:41mind of the giro something special some special memories with this pink jersey would that what does
08:47it mean not really i guess correct no not really i remember something with nipali in the pink jersey but
08:53that's not so many years ago you know he's not 100 years old yet so it was still in my time i even raced
08:58with him so uh but i really don't remember further back than that thank you matt congratulations